Motivational Quotes

Change

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

41.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William